Wringer



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Patented May 2, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFic SHELTON H. CONABROE, F LAWRENCE, INDIANA., ASSIGNOR T0 MULLINS in" TUBING CORPORATION, 0F SALEM, OHIO, A CORPORATION 0F NEW 'YORK wamenn i .Application filed August 19, 1931. Serial No. 558,007.

The object of my invention is to produce a clothes wringer of compact and effective character having novel means by which the upper roll may be yieldingly stressed upon the lower roll, the construction being vsuch that the stress may be instantly relieved by a push exerted by the operator from either side of the device.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation in partial vertical section of an embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 an end elevation;

. Fig. 3 a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1 with the parts in spring-stressed position; and

Fi 4 a section in the same plane as that of Fig. 3 with the parts in spring-released p position.

In the drawings 10 indicates a base, conveniently formed of sheet metal, having vertical end standards 11, 11 channeled for the receptionof bearing blocks 12, for the lower roll 13 and for the bearing blocks 14, of the up er roll 15.

Fivoted at 17, 17, on the inner faces of the end walls of standards 11, on an axis parallel to the axes of the rolls, are two upwardly-extending arms 18, 18 the upper ends of which are connected by a hollow cross head 19 shaped to complement and form a nish cap for the upper ends of standards 1 Within head 19, at its middle, are two deending ears 20, 2O to which are pivoted at 21, 21 the upwardly-extending ears 22, 22 of a channeled spring carrier 23 having cross pins 24, 24. Mounted'in the spring carrier 23, and extending longitudinally of the structure is a bar or leaf spring 25 above the cross pins 24 and at its middle abutted against an ad` justable abutment pin 26 threaded through carrier 23.

The ends of spring 25 are rounded, as indicated at 25', and adapted to take into shallow seats 27 formed in the upper faces of the upper-roll journal-blocks.

The parts are so proportionedthat, when `in the positions shown in Fig. 3, spring 25 will lie in the vertical plane of the two rolls 13 and 15 and will be stressed to yieldingly urge roll 15 upon roll 13; and when in the position shown in Fig. 4 the spring will be permit the vertical extraction of the upper roll journal-block and the upper-roll.

A spring cup 30 mounted upon the inner facek of each standard 11 carries a 'springpressed retaining ball 31 which, when the arts are in the positionsY shown in Fig. 3, will take into a shallow pocket 32 in the outer face of the adjacent arm 18 to yieldingly hold the cross-head and its associated parts in the medial spring-stressing position shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

When the partsare in the positions shown v in Fig.. 4 movement of the cross-head 19 to the position shown -in Figs.. l, 2 and 3, straightens the toggle, one link of which is composed of the arms 18 and the other link of which is composed of the spring 25 with its swinging carrier, to stress the spring against the upper-roll journal-blocks.

I claim as my invention:`

1. A wringer comprising a base, a lowerroll Vjournaled therein upper-roll bearing blocks vertically-movable in the base, an upper-roll associated with said bearingblocks, a laterally-swinging head pivoted upon the base, and spring means carried by the swinging head'capable and in osition to toggle upon the upper-roll journa -blocks 2. A wringer comprising a base, a lowerroll journaled therein,pupperroll bearing blocks vertically-movable in the base, an upper-roll associated with said bearingblocks, a laterally-swinging head pivoted upon the base, and a bar spring mounted in the swinging head with its free ends arran ed to toggle upon the upper-roll journallocks.

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3. A wringery comprising a base, a lowerroll journaled therein, upper-roll bearing blocks vertically-movable in the base, an upper-roll associated with said bearingblocks, a laterally-swinging head pivoted upon the base, a spring-carrier pivotallymounted on the swinging head upon an axis parallel with the roll axes, and a bar spring mounted in said carrier with its free ends 1n a position to toggle upon the upperroll journal-blocks.

4. A wringer comprising a base, a lowerroll journaled. therein, upper-roll bearing blocks vertically-movable in the base, an upper-roll4 associated with said bearingblocks, a. laterally-swinging head pivoted upon the base, a spring-carrier pivotallymounted on the swinging head upon an axis .parallel with the roll axes, a bar spring mounted in said carrier with its free ends in a position to toggle upon the upper-roll journal-blocks7 and an adjustable abutment for the middle of said spring.

5. In a wringer the combination with a base and two rolls journaled therein and one roll laterally shiftable relative to the otlwr in the base, of roll-stressing means comprising a swinging spring head pivoted upon the base and a bar spring anchored at its middle on said swinging head and engageable at its ends by transverse movement with the bearings of the laterallymovable roll.

6. In a wringer the combination with a base and two rolls journaled therein and one roll laterally shiftable relative to the other in the base, of roll-stressing means bomprising a swinging spring head pivoted upon the base and a bar spring pivotally anchored at its middle on said swinging head on an axis parallel with the axis of the carrier and engageable at its ends by transverse movement with the bearings oi.a the laterally-movable roll.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at'Indianapplis, Indiana, this 7th day of August, A. one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

SHELTON H. CONARROE. 

